Weston Colored School

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Weston Colored School
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Location345 Center St., Weston, West Virginia
Coordinates 39°2′23″N80°27′53″W / 39.03972°N 80.46472°W / 39.03972; -80.46472
Arealess than one acre
Architectural styleMission/Spanish Revival
Part of Weston Downtown Residential Historic District (ID04001596)
NRHP reference No. 93000224 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 9, 1993
Designated CPFebruary 2, 2005

Weston Colored School, also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School, is a historic one-room school building located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1882, and is a single-story rubbed red brick building on a fieldstone foundation. It originally measured 22 by 28 feet (6.7 by 8.5 m), then enlarged in 1928 by 12.5 feet (3.8 m) to the east. It was used as an educational facility for the community's African-American youth until desegregation in 1954. It was subsequently used for storage, then an agricultural classroom for the Lewis County High School, [2] and as a shop for mentally disabled students. It afterwards was used by the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is located in the Weston Downtown Residential Historic District, listed in 2005. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Mountaineer Military Museum, Previously Weston Colored School, 1882-1954". Clio. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  3. Joy Gregoire Gilchrist (December 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Weston Colored School" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved August 5, 2011.